Building On Regulatory Foundations and Bridging to the Future

The event, "Building on Regulatory Foundations and Bridging to the Future," commemorated the 30th anniversary of Executive Order 12866 and 20th anniversary of Circular A-4. Taking place a couple weeks before ChatGPT’s first birthday, the event welcomed 100+ participants and featured keynote speaker, Cass Sunstein of Harvard Law School.

Susan Dudley

Susan Dudley is founder and former director of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center and distinguished professor of practice in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration.

Event Highlights: Building On Regulatory Foundations and Bridging to the Future

Two more recent, but no less important, foundations are Executive Order 12866 of 1993 and Circular A-4 of 2003. In November, the IBM Center for the Business of Government and the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center gathered regulatory experts to reflect on these foundations and explore emerging opportunities and challenges for good regulatory practice.

Founder and Former Director
George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center

Susan Dudley is founder and former director of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center and distinguished professor of practice in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration.

She is past president of the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis, a senior fellow with the Administrative Conference of the United States, a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, on the board of the National Federation of Independent Businesses Legal Center and Economists Incorporated,and on the executive committee of the Federalist Society Administrative Law Group.

Professor Dudley served as the Presidentially-appointed Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, directed the Regulatory Studies Program at the Mercatus Center, taught courses on regulation at the George Mason University School of Law, served as a staff economist at OIRA, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and as a consultant to government and private clients at Economists Incorporated.

She holds a Master of Science degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a Bachelor of Science degree (summa cum laude) in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her book, Regulation: A Primer, with Jerry Brito, is available on Amazon.com.